Serious problems with PvP across the board

[Hiruke]

1) "Fresh Meat"

Is it really intended that part of PvP is to GUESS as to what jobs the other folks are? It's super annoying to get out of the gates, look at the other side, see all four of them, and STILL not be sure what jobs they are. This is really bad when it comes to lalafells. Is that lalafell a healer? A caster? That guy with the book, is he their SCH? Or their SMN? Who knows. Who cares, right? So, that's fun.

Also pretty bad is when you are targeting someone, and looking at the target bar, you have no idea who you're targeting unless that target has a mark/sign. Am I being chased by a WAR? A BRD? Good question. I do know I'm being hit by some "Fresh Meat" guy, though, so that's useful information.

2) Sleep

Being slept for 30 seconds is pretty lolz. That is more than enough time for the other party to explode one of your members. 10 seconds is more than enough time. Sure, you can Purify, but then you can just be reslept for another 15 seconds. Or suffer from Heavy, Bind, or whatever else. If you can effectively sleep the other group, they're pretty much just out of luck.

3) SMN

The only thing more demoralizing than BLMs is SMNs. BLMs you can at least deal with by shutting them down (unless, you know, it's BLM+SMN, because then the SMN will just Raise the BLM back up after you kill him, so that's fun). SMNs hand you anti-heals, movement reduction, cure each other, raise up their dead buddies, deal lots of quick burst damage, have pets to harass you with stuns and such, etc. etc. A lot of groups will just be completely shut down by 2 SMN in the enemy group. Sure, you can Esuna the anti-heal, but uh, Esuna only takes off one debuff, and you're going to have a plethora of debuffs on you. Plus, well, they'll just recast it on you. Yay! Trying to kill one of the SMNs while getting beat up by their DoTs and pets while both SMNs and the healer heal up the targeted SMN is pretty much the most useless thing on earth.

4) 5k marks to reset PvP actions

Seriously? At like rank 8 or something, I still don't have nearly enough marks to reset my actions. What if I want to play some other class? What if I made a mistake in the actions I chose? What then? Guess I'm screwed. Thanks.

5) PvP actions bound to ALL classes

Who seriously thought this was a good idea? Isn't it bad enough that if we want to spend the 300+ wins to get a full set of warwolf for one job, you also have no hope of buying actions for more than one class because they cost so much? Isn't a lot of the fun of this game being able to play different jobs? I guess in PvP you're stuck with just one job, so I hope you pick the job that is the best at steamrolling people in PvP (hope you're an awesome SMN or BLM if you're a dps!). You really ought to have different pools of AP/PvP abilities per each class.

6) PvE/PvP shares hotbars

This really sucks. I have to set up my hotbar to account for both PvE and PvP? Then also change my additional actions every time I want to switch between PvE and PvP? This is super inconvenient. Would be nice if there was a PvP and a PvE hotbar and additional action set, and that you could bind these to gear sets, so when I switched to my PvP gear set, it also switched to my PvP hotbar and additional action set. Quick! Easy! YAY!

7) 2min wait time to enter

If I'm just going to get facerolled by BLMs and SMNs all day, it would be nice if the wait time to enter the match wasn't an excruciating 2 mins. I spend enough time not doing anything in the match.

8) Stun locks are also pretty crazy

Seriously? Stunned for 5 seconds? Then get hit with more stuns? Bound if you try to run, or heavied, or whatever. It's pretty fun how fast you can rock a healer with WAR Holmgang then a WAR and a DRG or something decide to stun the healer over and over again. Yeah, those other guys who are slept? They'll still be slept for quite a bit after the healer is dead.

9) No way to practice

I've gotten a fair number of wins, and I know there are a lot of things I could do better, but it's pretty difficult to get much better when you're busy waiting to enter the pit, and then busy getting rocked by BLMs and SMNs. I'd like to be able to practice against my friends (for 0 marks and 0 xp) so I could practice what I need to get better at. BUT NO. I guess I can just go get facerolled nonstop until I quit. Well, cash me out. Good luck with that, SE.

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I'm sure this thread will be filled with troll remarks about this that or the other, which I won't bother reading, so enjoy. The point is though, this seems wildly unbalanced, and not fun, in a large number of respects, from inaccessibility to PvP abilities to inability to switch between roles to figure out which makes the most sense to you, etc.

I was seriously interested in PvP, but until there are some serious readjustments, I won't be taking part in it anymore. I really hope a lot of system and balance adjustments are made, because right now it's pretty much just set up for people with certain party configs who are excellent at those jobs to steam roll everyone else, which after a while becomes pretty demoralizing and after a while I guess you're mostly going to have BRDs, BLMs, and SMNs rocking each other nonstop with very few folks on any other dps roles.